Definition of "forenoons" [forenoons]

• Plural form of forenoon. (noun)

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• "They did not know, and he never told them, of the rabbits he had killed, of the quail, young and old, he had captured and devoured, of the farmers 'chicken-roosts he had raided, nor of the cave-lair he had made and carpeted with dry leaves and grasses and in which he had slept in warmth and comfort through the forenoons of many days."
• "The afternoons and early evenings he gave to the one, the nights to the other; the forenoons and parts of the nights were devoted to sleep for the twain."
• "What thoughts ran through Dutch's head on placid forenoons, when the river was an unbroken swell through his clip-on shades -- only to be disturbed by the first busload of day-trippers bursting out of the forest?"